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PRE-TEST IN CREATIVE WRITING

SY 2021-2022

Name _________________________________________ Score _____________________

Direction/s: Choose the letter of the correct answer.

1. Which of the following figures of speech uses representations such as objects, actions, and ideas in a
manner that appeals to the senses?
A. Imagery C. Metaphor
B. Hyperbole D. Simile

2. Which of the following DOES NOT belong to the group?

A. Hypertext C. Oxymoron
B. Onomatopoeia D. Synecdoche

3. Which figure of speech states comparison (formed with “like” or “as”) between two fundamentally
dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common?
A. Hyperbole C. Personification
B. Metaphor D. Simile

4. Which of the following is the sense of musicality that you notice in each line of verse, which most poetry
have?
A. Diction C. Rhyme
B. Phoneme D. Syntax

5. Which of the following means how words are arranged in a sentence or line?
A. Diction C. Phoneme
B. Morpheme D. Syntax

6. Which of the following is the underlying message or the central idea of the whole work?
A. Diction C. Syntax
B. Morpheme D. Theme

7. Which refers to a short poem with three lines and a syllable count of 5-7-5. It also contains elements
such as kigo (seasonal reference) and ikireji (“cutting word” placed between juxtaposed imagery)?
A. English Haiku C. Sestina
B. Japanese Haiku D. Tanaga

8. What Filipino poetic form that has four lines with seven syllables each, all of which rhyme together?
A. English Haiku C. Sestina
B. Japanese Haiku D. Tanaga

“The smell of a stone

The summer grass is red
Dew is hot”
9. What kind of poetry is the given selection?
A. Filipino Haiku C. Tanaga
B. Japanese Haiku D. Villanelle
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“Dance with me across the sea,

stunning island I’ll take thee.
Reign as grand queen overall,
mild hand over big and small.”
10. What kind of poetry is the given selection?
A. Filipino Haiku C. Tanaga
B. Japanese Haiku D. Villanelle

11. Which of the following pertains to stories that are crafted from one’s imagination?
A. Fiction C. Plot
B. Nonfiction D. Setting

12. Which element of a story refers to the people or animals that make things happen in fiction?
A. Character C. Setting
B. Plot D. Techniques

13. Which of the choices below DOES NOT include to the group?
A. Exposition C. Rising Action
B. Climax D. Technique

14. Which of the choices below DOES NOT belong to the group?
A. Foreshadowing C. Symbolism and Motif
B. Point of View D. Tone and Mood

15. Which type of theme is the most significant message found in any fictional work?
A. Formal Theme C. Major Theme
B. Informal Theme D. Minor Theme

16. “The food may not be enough for us, but what is more important is that we stick together as a family
through the harsh times.”
A. Bitter Tone C. Optimistic Tone
B. Humorous Tone D. Sentimental Tone

17. Which of the following literary compositions is written either in prose or verse form?
A. Acting C. Monologue
B. Drama D. Soliloquy

18. Which of the following is defined as words or lines of the characters that are meant to be delivered
verbally by the actors?
A. Acting C. Monologue
B. Dialogue D. Script

19. Which of the following refers to the techniques or method that dramatist and directors adhere to in
creating the way the play is written and interpreted?
A. Audience C. Dramatic Devices
B. Convention D. Genre

20. Which of the following refers to the viewers of the play?

A. Audience C. Genre
B. Characters D. Spectacle

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21. Which of the following refers to the rhythm of the actor’s voices as they speak/ the variations in how
dialogues are delivered?
A. Music/Rhythm C. Spectacle
B. Plot D. Theme

22. What element of drama refers to the things that can be seen on stage during the performance of the
play such as set design, costume, and special effects? It is also called visual elements. (Aristotle’s six
elements of drama).
A. Characters C. Music/Rhythm
B. Dialogue D. Spectacle

23. Which literary element of drama refers to the persons, animals, or other entities that are portrayed in a
play?
A. Audience C. Genre
B. Characters D. Spectacle

24. What refers to a dramatic device that the members of the audience are fully and clearly aware of the
significance and implications of the character’s words, actions, or situations except the character
himself/herself?
A. Aside C. Monologue
B. Dramatic Irony D. Soliloquy

25. Which of the following refers to the theatrical equipment such as backdrops and platforms that set the
mood and setting of each scene in the play?
A. Makeup C. Sound
B. Scenery D. Props

26. Which literary element of drama mentions to the use of costumes, body paint, wigs, and other similar
body accessories to transform an actor into the character that he/she portrays?
A. Makeup C. Sound
B. Scenery D. Props

27. Which of the following sets the direction of the play and guides the director as he leads the entire
production, especially the actors, in bringing the characters and the plot to life?
A. Characters C. Stage Directions
B. Scripts D. Title

28. Which literary element of drama describes the time and place the story happens?
A. Plot Structure C. Stage Directions
B. Setting D. Title

29. Which of the following is written inside round brackets, describe how the actors, in the portrayal of their
characters, are expected to move, act, and speak?
A. Descriptions C. Setting
B. Plot Structure D. Stage Directions

30. In which part does a script usually begin followed by the playwright’s name?
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A. Descriptions C. Setting
B. Dialogue D. Title

Analyze and identify which technical element of drama are shown in the pictures below. Choose the
letter of the correct answer.

31. A. Makeup C. Sounds

B. Scenery D. Props

32. A. Makeup C. Sounds

B. Scenery D. Props

33. A. Makeup C. Sounds

B. Scenery D. Props

34. A. Makeup C. Sounds

B. Scenery D. Props

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35. A. Makeup C. Sounds
B. Scenery D. Props

36. [A nondescript apartment. There is nothing to differentiate this apartment from any other apartment in
any other building in any other city. A young WOMAN, also nondescript, sits in a rocking chair, cradling
an infant tenderly in her arms. Lost in thought, she is slow to notice the scuffling of feet just outside the
apartment door. Suddenly her eyes grow wide – she lunges out of the chair, looks about the room in a
panic, stuffs the baby into a bureau drawer, and disappears into the hallway. A few moments later, a
young MAN enters carrying an enormous stack of files and papers…]
What part/element of script is the given example?
A. Acting C. Dialogue
B. Description D. Nonverbal Expressions

MAN - a hardworking manor employee who don’t want kids

WOMAN - a wife who lived in time of depression
MESSENGER - suit by the company to take the desired of cake

A nondescript apartment. There is nothing to differentiate this apartment from any other
apartment in any other building in any other city. A young WOMAN, also nondescript, sits in a rocking
chair, cradling an infant tenderly in her arms……

MAN: [His usual greetings.] I’m home.

[He loosens his tie and waits for a response, but none is forthcoming. He hesitates]
MAN: I’m … I’m home.
[Still no response. He scratches his head, puzzled.]
MAN: Hello?
WOMAN; [Offstage.] In here!
MAN: I said I was –
WOMAN: In the kitchen!
MAN: Aren’t you going to –
[ The WOMAN scurries into the room wearing an apron and oven mitts. She kisses her husband
dutifully on the cheek and scurries back towards the kitchen.]
37. From excerpt above, what do you call on the lines of the MAN and WOMAN?
A. Dialogue C. Soliloquy
B. Monologue D. Stage Whisper

38. What element of script that are in capital letters on the excerpt above?
A. Characters C. Genre
B. Dialogue D. Props

39. From the excerpt above, what are the sentences or words inside the brackets?
A. Convention C. Spectacle
B. Speaking D. Stage Directions

40. What are the underlined phrases across each character on the excerpt above?
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A. Characterization C. Stage Directions
B. Description D. Stage Whisper

41. From the excerpt above, what part/element of drama are the italicize sentences?
A. Dialogue C. Setting
B. Monologue D. Spectacle

42. Love songs, party songs, and soundtracks – What element of drama are these?
A. Musical Score C. Sound Effect
B. Rhythm D. Stage Whisper

43. “Harry had taken up his place at wizard school, where he and his scar were famous ...but now the
school year was over, and he was back with the Dursleys for the summer, back to being treated like a
dog that had rolled in something smelly.” (“Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,” J.K. Rowling)
Analyze the excerpt above. In what point of view is the given selection?
A. First Person C. Third Person (Limited)
B. Second Person D. Third Person (Omniscient)

44. Which of the following is the simple and easy learnable way of making hypertext?
A. HTML C. URL
B. HTTP D. Web 2.0

45. Which of the following is NOT TRUE in Hypertext?

A. It creates unique storytelling opportunities for writers.
B. It allows for the plot to become relatively malleable and creates different experiences
for different readers.
C. It creates stories that heavily deviate from the norm of linear progression, and
instead create stories with interactive plots.
D. None of the above

Identify the parts of the essay below to form the original socio-political essay. Choose the letter of the
correct answer.

46. _____ Title

47. _____ Writer

48. _____ Introduction

49. _____ Body or Middle Section

50. _____ Conclusion

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(C) When we exercised the extraordinary

powers provided for in the Constitution in order to
save a threatened republic and to build a new
society, we made a decisive act of freedom. You
will recall that the Constitution referred to had to
be approved by a foreign legislature and its
commander-in-chief provision was intended to
(A) His Excellency Ferdinand E. Marcos quell any act of anti-colonialist resistance by the
President of the Philippines Filipino people. But we transformed that
[Released on May 12, 1982] imposition on our will into a weapon of
self-preservation and self-liberation.
Having done so, we proceeded to draft a
new charter, one that stems from our own
sovereign act, a fundamental law by the Filipino,
of the Filipino, and for the Filipino. Thus, the New
Society was new in its fundamental legal aspect:
we had a new charter for a new social existence.
(B) From the very first uprising of our colonial
history, Filipino have always had a dream
of freedom, dignity, and equality. No
Filipino who has read the writings of the
heroes of the Propaganda Period cannot
(D) The True Filipino Ideology
but be stirred by the sentiments and ideas
of Rizal, Mabini, Bonifacio, del Pilar,
Burgos and Aglipay. Their lives and
literature are the well-springs of Filipino
ideology.
(E) The heroic men and women who fell in Bataan, Corregidor, and in the mountains and hills in
the hour of resistance, died for that ideology. The ideology burned in them even if they did not seek to
define it.
Now we need to define; it is the task of the moment. A few of our countrymen have strayed to
foreign ideologies, different and opposing ideologies, exalting on one side liberty and on the other,
equality, pushing, as it were, extreme positions.
These are ideologies alien to our nature for they sprung from foreign soil, shaped by cultures
different from our own. For while it is true that Truth is universal to all of mankind, the truths of
experience are particularized by history and culture. Unless we can understand this, we cannot take
the first step towards national liberation.
Happily, however, we have taken the first steps.

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